Sample texts from ECHO

Some sample texts and their potential problems. (ECHO links for each potential problem to be included)

General problems: Spaces before and after punctuation marks ( . , ; ! ? )

​Benedetti (1585, annotated)

​handwritten annotations (cannot be typed in China); ​spaces within words ("e cclipses"); ​catchwords and signatures; the use of U and V: ​writing v for u​writing u for v; ligature ß for ss; ​missing hyphens

​Euclid (1558, Latin)

Latin (and Greek) ligatures, for example ​ct (simple ligature) and ​que (complex ligature) (see also here); long quotations (p.410); ​paper creases; ​extensive marginal notes

​Euclid (1703, Latin/Greek?)

Greek ligatures: ​image p.16 (see also here); columns (recto: gr lat, verso: lat gr) with "un-synchronized pagebreaks"; ​footnotes (​text at bottom of the page); sometimes, the columns fill the whole width of the page (see ​here)

​QQTS (1627, Chinese; with ​xml)

(The first DE Specs draft, to be delivered by 2008-09-29, will include only European languages.)

​Hutton (1795, English encyclopedia; with ​xml)

​references to other entries

(The first DE Specs draft, to be delivered by 2008-09-29, will not include specs for dictionaries.)